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Bagot and Barrack Wis 'Phone 941, aww ne. St. SHE GOT WHAT SHE his Woman Had to Insist |» ongly, but it Paid ) a fo a, | Special to the Whig. The North Cape is the extreme goal usually sought by the ordinary travel ler to the "Land of the Midnight Sun." Here for about ten weeks in summer the sun hangs at midnight {above the restless waters of the Arctic ocean, like a low burning lamp of LAurora. The North Cape for us, how- jever, was only thé beginning of ow {polar cruise. True the fjord trip with {its marvellous scenery and wonderful Lenlor and atmosphere is indescribably : beautiful and, compared to ordinary | latitudes, ix far northward, for as vou iknow all of Iceland snd Alaska and imuch of Greenland lies south of North Cape and one realizes that bevond this {point he is indeed approximating that luriknown stretch of jey desolation around the very pole itself. | We were, therefore, all fully alive to {the fact that this plunge into the sav | age seas of the north was no child's iplay, and that the "pleasure cruise" denture of the "trip ended at North { Cape. That we were about to enter 'the strenuous field of polar explora- {tion with ite attendant hardships and fdangers, was strikingly emphasized by {the presence of our second ship that | now never lost sight of us, and always {gtood ready to deliver ua if perchanee the Kong Harald should become haope {lessly entangled in the treacherous je {pack of the pole. | It was, therefore, an impressive meet ting when we gathered on deck that !miduight under' the lee of North Cape and gird on our armor, so to speak, {for the invasion of the land of Aegi and Ran, that relentless pair who rule tover the Arctic waters and who neith- er give nor take quarter when they en. gage 'these northern elements with {man. But our party for the most part was composed of seasoned travel llors, fully acquainted with the vieis- !situdes of travel and fully prepared to meet whatever of inconvenience or pri- vation the eruise held in store. Our equipment was of the very best Both the Kong Harald and our re (serve ship, the Neptun, were especially {built for - polar cruising and manfied | by Norwegian officers and crews whe 'had spent years in various craft that sailed the northern seas. i i ! The Ship's Commander, {' Allow me to introduce vou to Capt tArnet, eommanding the Kong Harald Does he not inspire you with confi dence from the moment his rugged and kindly features beam good-naturedly [upon you ? Then he grasps your hand BES Pre oS RACY LETTERS He Writes to the Whig About His Tour in A Plunge Into the Savage Seas of the North---Bear Island Reached---impressive Monument of Aurora's Reaim---A Glacier-Guarded Gate. waves a8 we ploughed our northward was indeed marvelous. way Arrival at Bear Island. Hnally we reached Bear thi¢ half-way haven between North Cape and the southern shores of Spitsbergen--and into the little shel- ter harbor we steered where for a few hours we rode in peaceful waters at rest. Here we agein as sembled of deck and exchanged periences. Ihe ladies put on addi- tional wraps and the sailors re lashed the baggage that had gone adrift in the cabins .and tings gen erally were put in ship-shape for the final dash to the shelter of Spits bergen and the ice pack of the pole. Bear [Island stands solitary and lone in the middle of the ocean and always reminded one of those breathing spots in the centre of a crowded London street where surrounded by a row of stone posts, one may stop and collect his thoughts and effects before he plunges again across the remaining hall of tbe thoroughfare. We were far to the north of the zone of vegetation and the name "Bear lsland" would have Leen even more appropriate if the "'¢" instead of the second could have been the final letter of the first At the lunch counter on deck which was now kept open throughout thd never-ending day many regaled themselves and fortified the recently harassed inner man with "the sub stance of things 'hoped for" though evidenily too recently seen. Captain Arnet now came down from the pilot house and assured us the worst would soon be over and thus encouraged by the hope of an early glimpse of Spitsbergen we made Island-- eX ai Arete me of word. ready at the sound of x bells for! the second encounter Sean. Arctic. The ocean, sullen and resentfal, lashed its fqamy crest to and fro like the swaying of an angry beast at bay. As the bleak outling: of Besar Island sank below the steely blue horizon the moan of the discorsolate breakers against its rocky base sounded - like the wail of + lost "soul within the gates of per- dition." There was an eerie sensa- tion, an unnamed dread that ob- sesded ove of this tumultuous sea i ienlt to edntrol. It was the con- sciousness of man's witer impotence wd insigrkficance as compared to the awful elements about him---the ocon- viction that here on this northern with the belli | ~powetiully but gemtly-~in.a manne: | that earries conviction with it and lvou know that he is the sort of cap- | tain that in case of dire distress would be the last to leave his ship. And as {the days'go by you learn to love him, not only on account of his consum- imate seamanship, but alse because of {his big manly heart, as tender us a | woman's, yet as stern, when necessary, {as.n Caesar's. His pieture stands op {the desk before me as I write and 1 realize that now in January, with the midnight gloom almost constantly hovering over the Norwegian coast; this same quiet, imperturbable master {of the restless main is sailing his now 'commereinl ship among the rocks and olifiy of the bleak winter seas that break in a thréateming mood on Nor way's storm-swept shores. Capt | Arnet is one of the most trusted cow: {manders of the Nordenfjeldske Damp- !skibsselskab--a maritime organization (not as piratical as ils name sounds, {which being translated, simply means "The Northern Fields Rteamship com- ny" --and was naturally selected as Fe most competent. man to command £) {this rather dangerous polar expedition. {And so our ship with Capt. Arnet for jeommander and a picked crew under him could not have been better man- The Kong Harald is a small ship (and at first thought one might con: sider the size an objection. Nothing, however, could be fmrther from the truth. The continental steamship com: RD ne panies' that have attempted these po- roo | They cannot navigate the 'ernises in big ocenn-going vessels dom get within the real polar zone. ice, and superficial. They" use the risks traveller comes away from Spitsbergen with only. a birdseve view of this | bleak, hit fascinating domain. Of the iweveral big steamship companies tha dispatched ships to these waters last summer but obe, so far ae 1 know, was as we plunged isto thal tre sen our ship, thovgh small, 'in 8 most praiseworthy man. net and fhe way it rode waste of waters he was far from his familiar world, far from all that ren- ders Fle worth while and far from that influence that makes for pro- gress, growth, vitality and eciviliza- tion. It was desolation personified. The ocoan, maddening in its monotony and dominated by That ever con stant minor undertone, soon over- whelmod one by ils melancholy mood and its spirit of hopeless dejection. Bven the human voice jarred dis- consolately down these siretohes of eternal sadness. Again and agen I eaught glimpses of that seething sea broadening out into infinity and tossing about like a cork on its High Tension Necessary in This Age of Keen Com- petition and Great Ace complishmeut 5 x When the Body Fails to Support the Brain Seek the Help of Necvoys people are the salt of the earth, ' The great men and great women are usually those of nervous KINGSTON, ONTARIO, * ATURDAY, JANUARY crest our trailing "Neptun.™ And again and again this picture always impressed me With a sense of pity for the boasted achievements of man. I don't know why but there was always something extremely pa- thetic fn the sight of (his little hoat that proud product of man, lifted at will by this powerful leviathan with- out even being conscience of its pre sence. And yet this parasite on the bosom of the sea was filled with stil smaller forme of life--~human be- ings--who, measured by their titanic surroundings, became microscopic in comparison. Perhaps it was the mood of the abens --ifanight have been the humor of the clime-bnut, however this may be, the sight of the pointed, snow- capped peaks of Spitsbergen, only accenttated the feeling of pathos and pity that obsessed me and held me irresistibly in iis unrelenting grasp. angry y t ---- . Strange Arctic Silence, In another hour we were sailing a- long in sheltered waters' under the lee of Spitsbergen's southern shores that stretch away to the morth for hundreds of miles till they become lcet in the Arctic ice and grow in distinguishable from the great frozen continent that encompasses the pole. From the slp the mammoth glaciers' that filled the rock-bound valleys from peak to peak shimmered in the unsstting sun like serpents ol ice that wound their desolate course down to the cruel blue of the sea. Here and there a windswept. granita mountain lifted its clean cut head loft in the Arctic atmosphere and githoustted with prismatic contrast and sharpness its steely outline a- gainst the adamantine sky. Over all thers brooded that indescribable spirit of Arctic silence that comes upon ong with an impelling consciousness strange 2s it is uresistible, "Lhe pre- sence of that vast iee-clad continent with its boundless fields of eternal snow, its trementlous glaciers, . its gloomy peaks of granite and its me mores. of the ceaseless ages, un- disturbed by the tread human foot and unsullied by the sound of human voice imprésses one with an overwhelming sense of helpless jnsig- pificance, Une gazes, as it unbidden into the scared shrine the awful god of the north and one hesitates before he desecrates the eon-old silence with spoken words. It was an awestricken audience that sailed past these impressive monu ments of Aurora's realm and each seemed engaged with his own psychic revelations. We were at last in the real Arctic north--that' domain pic tured from the accounts of former po- lar explorers but pictured as these scenes must alwavs be when actual ex- perience in these latitudes is Jasking. ih the most inaccuestrmanner, RH isthe "woul" of thi¥ région that van never be conveyed in words. One must feel that mysterious influence of the north to understand. Even as the mariners compass grows variable and eccentric while sailing these surcharged seas, so is the mind of man swayed abnormal- ly by the strange influences that = sur round the magnetic pole. One's view: point shifts and one's nature suffers a variation as inevitable as it is some- times terrorizing. The effect of these brooding peaks of granite--black pearls ominous in setting of glacial ice--the silent stretches of untrodden snow the insidious subtlety of that irvesisti- ble melancholy that permeates po impels--fills one with weird emotions abd while fascinated still he fears. It was while dominated by these har- us ol were, of 13, M12. assing first impressions that the signal was given to change the ship's course and as we swerved to starboard we discovered the glacier-guarded gate of Ive 'Fjord into which we sailed casting anchor a few hours later at the head of the bay in ithe very heart of this desolute mass of rock and ice that form time immemorial had alteriantls gleamed for half a year in the cheer less rays of the unsetting sun to pass in turn for a like period of time into the cold embrace of the long Arctic night--a realm peopled only by the memories of its attempted conquest, a boreal solitude encompassed round about by bitter seas, the fabled abode of Aegir and Ran and the grave of their 'hapless victims, the "No Man's Land" of the world--inexorable and re lentless but withal uncannily fascinat- ing Spitsbergen ! --~SIGEL ROUSH. JOHN DYMENT IS DEAD, Brother of President of Kingston shipbuilding Company. Barrie, Jan. 12.--John Dvsment, the well-known and wealthy horseman, died this morning. All cfforts to re move a blood formation on his brain proved unavailing. He was unconsci- ous for three days. For the past ten years he was manager and trainer of the racing stables of his uncle, the late N. Dyment, and on his death con- tinued in that capacity for S. Dyment, who is president of the Kingston Ship: building company. His widow survives him, with one son. : All the big Dy- ment factories here ' are closed down till after the funeral. - NEW YORK BOWERY FIRE, Two Thousand People Turned in Zero Weather. New York, Jan. 12.-Ywo thousand dwellers in the Bowery tenements were turned out of their homes, this morn. img, in zero weather when a fire |oaused, by the upsetting of grease, destroyed three buildings, with a loss of twenty thousand dollars. It tied up railway traflic, and for a time it looked as if the fire might wipe out the large part of the famous Bowery, Out TURKS BADLY DEFEATED. Seven Boats Sunk and 200 Men Lost Their Lives. Rome, Jan. 12.--An oflicial an- noincement issued to-day says the Italian fleet in the Red gea has fought and desTroyed a flotilla of seven gunboats and 'armed yacht off Kun fida, 'There were no Italian casual Aes, although several hundred Turks were filled or drowned, Our Princess' Fad. t Princess Patricia has that rarg and mther dangerous talent for caricature which may be deseribed as satire of the pencil, and lately she haw amusing her family circles with some rather daring "takeoffs" of them- selves. Ome represents the Duke of Connaught (hes father) in a violent rage, wearing the uniform of a field marshal, and calling ont, "Where's my horse?" This sketch is framed and hung up in the billiard room at Balmoral. (The princess colors her sketches afid gives them a' dainty and dashing finish, which makes them ex- cellent Pictures, apart from their value as portraits. 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